[Verse 1]
Please, could you stay awhile to share my grief
For it's such a lovely day
To have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake
[Chorus]
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
[Verse 2]
Those who have seen the needle's eye, now tread
Like a husk, from which all that was, now has fled
And the masks that the monsters wear
To feed, upon their prey
[Chorus]
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
[Verse 3]
Doubled up inside
Take a while to share my grief
Always doubled up inside
Taunted, cruel
[Chorus]
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering Star was written by Geoff Barrow & Beth Gibbons & Lee Oskar & Jerry Goldstein & B. B. Dickerson & Harold Brown & Papa Dee Allen & Howard Scott & Lonnie Jordan & Charles Miller.
Wandering Star was produced by Adrian Utley & Portishead.
Portishead released Wandering Star on Mon Aug 22 1994.
Barrow: “Wandering Star” kind of needed a solo, so I just kind of scratched the start of “Magic Mountain”. I wasn’t really ever a scratch DJ, as such, but I was always madly into DJ Premier. You don’t need loads of notes to make it sound cool, and that’s what Premier did with his scratching. He didn...